Chemistry Letters, Vol.35, No.8, 882-883, 2006
The first synthesis of thermally stable acylamino-substituted 1,2-dioxetanes
Singlet oxygen added smoothly to N-acyl-5-aryl-4-tertbutyl-3,3-dimethyl-2,3-dihydropyrroles 1 to give the corresponding bicyclic dioxetanes fused with N-acylpyrrolidine 2, which possessed marked thermal stability.